sheathe

• enPR: shēth, IPA^(key): /ʃiːð/

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• Rhymes: -iːð

sheathe (third-person singular simple present sheathes, present participle sheathing, simple past and past participle sheathed)

1. To put something, such as a knife, into a sheath.
2. To encase something with a protective covering.
   • 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 17, in The Subtle Minotaur‎:

     “She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.”

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